It’s hard to believe that Halloween day is here already. Although I wasn’t able to post as much as I would have liked this year, I had fun nonetheless, and as always with the Countdown to Halloween, half the fun is reading what other writers are posting. Stay tuned in November, as I will have some scary [...]
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Happy Halloween 2011 From the Catalogue of Curiosities!
Posted in 1960s, Halloween, Horror Movies, William Castle on October 31, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Frankenstein-O-Rama
Posted in Boris Karloff, Frankenstein, Halloween, Horror Movies, Illustration, tagged Frankenstein, Frankensteinia: The Frankenstein Blog on October 29, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
What is it about Mary Shelley’s creation that continues to endure, to transform, to inspire an entire cottage industry of creativity since its publication in 1818? In many ways Frankenstein is a universal story, a story about the pitfalls of being human. Sufficed to say, whatever its allure, Shelley’s Modern Prometheus continues to amble on; the story updated, revised, expanded upon. With all of that [...]
Vincent Price, Master of the Macabre
Posted in Halloween, Horror Movies, Illustration, Vincent Price, tagged horror movies, Vincent Price on October 27, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Halftone Horrors Part Four
Posted in 1960s, Boris Karloff, Comic Books, Comics, Gold Key Comics, Halloween on October 22, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Music For a Giallo Evening
Posted in 1960s, Edwige Fenech, Ennio Morricone, EuroTrash, Halloween, Horror Movies, Illustration, Mario Bava, tagged Edwige Fenech, Giallo on October 19, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Over at the film blog groove-machine that is Cinebeats, Kimberly Lindbergs has been making horror-themed music compilations all month long (part of The Countdown to Halloween) and her latest, Giallo Note, might just be the most inspired installment. Gathering music from a wide spectrum of Giallo films, you’ll hear pieces from Morricone to Goblin and dive [...]
Muppets and Misfits: Muppet Rawk 3, Part 2
Posted in Halloween, Horror Movies, Illustration, Misfits, Muppets, tagged Misfits, Muppet Rawk 3, Muppets on October 17, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Continued From Part One: One of my earliest love affairs with a music genre was with punk, and The Misfits were among my favorites. Songs about horror B-movies, backed with fast, driving music enveloped by the melodic, Roy Orbison-tinged vocals of Glenn Danzig, the Misfits held sway over my listening choices for many years. So when [...]
Posters of the Damned Part 2: The Boris Karloff Edition
Posted in Boris Karloff, Films, Halloween, Horror Movies, Posters, tagged Boris Karloff on October 6, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Catalogue of Curiosities, Halloween 2011 Cavalcade of Creepiness!
Posted in Halloween, Horror Movies, Illustration, Posters on October 1, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Vincent Price. Boris Karloff. Vampiria. Hammer Horror. Mario Bava. It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown. The Nightmare Before Christmas. These things and more are what remind me of October, of All-Hallow’s-Eve. Halloween has always been a favorite time of year for me, and I will be celebrating October’s fiendish offerings all month-long at the Catalogue of Curiosities. Be on the look out for [...]
Happy Halloween From the Catalogue of Curiosities!
Posted in Halloween, Illustration on October 31, 2010 | 2 Comments »
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